https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/p1rev2022 Made with the best of intentions en-us 2022-04-14 09:19:47 UTC 2025-10-02 11:09:06 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/p1rev2022/wish/2143673568 Classism ]]> 2022-04-14 09:25:09 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/p1rev2022/wish/2143673568 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/p1rev2022/wish/2143673605 Dynamic verb 'breaking' suggests impoliteness is so damaging that it is ruining society - Aitchson's crumbling castle/infectious disease.

Pre-modifier 'rigid' implies being polite used to be the prominent norm, suggests that this was a better time.]]> 2022-04-14 09:25:13 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/p1rev2022/wish/2143673605 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/p1rev2022/wish/2143674339
"Perhaps traditional courtesies are disappearing because we live in an increasingly frenetic/complex world" 

Adjective - complex & frenetic
Because of globalisation technology is in increasing and therefore this makes society more complex and different from the past where this wasnt the case.
Also the increase of technology means there is an increase in slang words and the idea that Britain is getting ruder]]> 2022-04-14 09:26:07 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/p1rev2022/wish/2143674339 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/p1rev2022/wish/2143674519 “Country’s leading manners expert” - authority of voice; the verb ‘leading’ suggests they are at the top of their field.

noun of ‘expert’; how can someone be an expert of manners, it is subjective; right wing traditional viewpoint of a set of manners]]> 2022-04-14 09:26:19 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/p1rev2022/wish/2143674519 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/p1rev2022/wish/2143675201  adjective rigid implies that the unbreakable has bent - represent the older generation as more knowledgeable and the guardians of socialisation where the younger generation are breaking that sacred tradition - demonstrates how the writer is older and therefore bias towards the older generation ]]> 2022-04-14 09:27:09 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/p1rev2022/wish/2143675201 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/p1rev2022/wish/2143675561 "Rigid social hierarchies that once governed behaviour are breaking down"

"Rigid"- shouldnt be able to break yet it it does- same paragraph "childre  were seen and not heard"- blames new generation and parents for allowing the breakdown of manners

"Social hierarchies"- tradition implanted by upper class- ignores the general lack of manners that have been around forever-suggests that even the upper class' language is breaking]]> 2022-04-14 09:27:41 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/p1rev2022/wish/2143675561 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/p1rev2022/wish/2143675589 ‘society has been ruined by louts’
collective noun society implies how the decline in manners have effected everyone
noun louts- stereotypical view of aggressive males]]> 2022-04-14 09:27:43 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/p1rev2022/wish/2143675589 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/p1rev2022/wish/2143676428 ‘ why should we bother when other people don’t?’ 
-implying a divide between the two and the collective pronoun ‘we’ implies a community. ]]> 2022-04-14 09:28:48 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/p1rev2022/wish/2143676428 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/p1rev2022/wish/2143677273 pre-modifiers 'loud and intrusive' imply that developments in technology have encouraged poorer manners. Presents a negative outlook on technology and its users - implied to be mainly youths.]]> 2022-04-14 09:29:56 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/p1rev2022/wish/2143677273 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/p1rev2022/wish/2143690090 Aggressive; makes these women seem more violent compared to those of ‘gentle breeding’]]> 2022-04-14 09:47:49 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/p1rev2022/wish/2143690090 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/p1rev2022/wish/2143691523 ‘men have been heard to say women are cats to each other’ 
animalistic viewpoint of women- represents women as spiteful
implies separation between genders how men are superior to women ]]> 2022-04-14 09:49:54 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/p1rev2022/wish/2143691523 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/p1rev2022/wish/2143691585 Usage of phonetic spelling, a colloquial term compared to the usage of "remonstrate", highlights the difference in language, possibly a class thing. ]]> 2022-04-14 09:50:01 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/p1rev2022/wish/2143691585